nateaff.bsky.social
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"Every safety rule is written in blood"
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Have you seen Stephen Gill's photographs? This reminds me of his book "The Pillar." He set up a pole in a field and took motion capture of the wildlife that showed up.
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In my local sub, the most upvoted advice was about being tracked by Palantir and wearing masks to avoid facial recognition software. Someone even suggested putting stuff in your shoe to avoid gait recognition tech. Giving that kind of advice to most protestors is counterproductive, imo.
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"Wear sunscreen and bring some water and snacks" is advice more appropriately tailored to the threat model of the normie protest-goer than "don't bring your phone, mask up, dress in black."
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My guess is that someone told him that Iran wants to off him
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I will totally do the "I'll buy you a coffee for your service" thing but only for transit cops and parking enforcement, the real heroes
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More impactful than "throwing bottles." The fact that you and others confuse that with protesting is more about you than him.
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They voluntarily hand over data related to safety issues, like how they react to emergency vehicles, or incident reports. They also give the police video data when subpoenaed. These are two different things that people have conflated.
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Biden was deporting more people than Trump. So mass deportation are look like they do under Trump for reasons other than just the number of people being deported.
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Omg, Megan, why are you so obsessed with us?
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In one of the videos, there was someone in Birkenstocks and black socks hucking rocks at ICE
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We're going to be caught with our pants down if Mexico or Canada decide to invade
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You can feel the effort they put into not drawing the obvious conclusions from the evidence.
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Seems improbable that only people riding BART switched to work from home. I'd guess people switched to avoid COVID, and kept with it because traffic was down. The parking and road capacity stayed the same, and that capacity gets filled because driving is relatively cheap and convenient.
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And most policies that at least have a chance of passing would affect commuters to SF, not to Oyster Point.
And cross bay traffic switched to cars post COVID because traffic went down. Now BART is down 70% but Bay Bridge traffics at 90%. That's a lot of people who can take BART, but don't.
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You original comment was about SF. Pre-Covid, congestion pricing studies by SFMTA estimated 78% of car commuters to downtown SF came from outer SF neighborhoods. They were also overwhelmingly wealthy.
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Yeah, the Bay Area has 8 million people. But defenders of driving want to base policy on 200 commuters from Tracy, CA, population 98,000.
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I don't have a car and have lived in SF for 15 years. I assume when people say SF transit isn't adequate that they just don't use it much. Or, they feel like they have to justify why they drive everywhere.
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Sorry for your loss
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They seem to be making up what SB375 does. Afaik, it just
just encourages infill, and ties GHG and VMT targets to regional planning, e.g. RHNA. There's no definition of "urban boundary" in it. So they're arguing for sprawl development without regard to induced VMT.
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It happens in San Francisco too
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How could they have known that the face eating leopard party would do this?
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Here's a map of who they want dead
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The majority Asian neighborhood I live in seems not to care about the politics of their car choices, and there's lots of Teslas here.
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You'd think having a company vauled at $1.5b, like builder.ai was, going bankrupt after pushing a fradulent AI product would maybe chip away a little at the credulity.
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And the California law requires that the cameras are removed if the number of people getting tickets doesn't go down. It's a way of requiring that slowing traffic speeds is the goal and not generating revenue.
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TIL Learned.
But honestly, it seems fine, since the addition of the word is more descriptive than the acronym. Who doesn't like descriptive redundancy? Not me.
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One of the DOGE boys, Justin Fox, is still in college, so yup
www.npr.org/2025/05/17/n...
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People lie about this stuff all the time too. I've seen it happen with a local issue on a road I'm familar with and travel regularly. When complaining about the issue, people would translate minor delays probably costing them seconds into life-altering delays.
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It is the animal house reference x.com/Noahpinion/s...
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Maybe someone tried to explain the term "basket of goods" to him when explaining inflation, said it was like a "basket of groceries" and basket was archaic. He got confused and thought "groceries" was archaic because he never uses the term.
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And people said prompt engineer wasn't a real job
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Rain volume is getting heavier due to climate change. But adding new people to a city has no effect on how much it rains.
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Here's the quote:
“The concern of all the advocates behind [the tax] was these properties ... [are] being used like shares of stock in the stock market for real estate investors to buy them and hold them for years and then resell them at higher values for profit.”
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You can find irl examples if you look up any debate on local vacancy taxes. Tenant unions and other non-profits are vocal supporters of these bills and usually repeat the above argument. Look at the quote from Dean Preston (former supervisor, DSA member) in this article.
www.kqed.org/news/1203079...
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Could be worse
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They're encouraging conditions that would make that gear necessary, kind of willing it into existence
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He's a state Senator from California
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As a Californian, I beg of you, please shut the fuck up for the rest of your term. Thanks :)
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I prefer my birdcicle in a dish rather than a cone like you have here
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They're much safer to be around as pedestrian too, especially when compared to Uber/burrito taxi drivers. They actually sense if you're about to enter a crosswalk, and will wait to see if you take the right of way.
The company also is directly liable for any accident, unlike with Uber/Lyft.
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The aggreement: all screwworm larvae will be quarantined in a single host, RFK Jr
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Except he's doing the "we arrest judges now" posts
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I just watched a video of him descending the Air Force One steps. It's probably one of the more dangerous parts of his day. A misstep and we have President Vance.
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"I had the head of Walmart. I had the head of Home Depot and the head of Target in my office. And I'll tell you what they think, they think what I'm doing is exactly right."
Suuure...
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I mean, these modern rat cages are not looking all that bad to me. But I do prefer the high ceilings of a bird cage.
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SFMTA has put one in on Kirkham in the Sunset, I think as a trial balloon for a slow streets treatment. Not surprisingly, people have freaked out about it. I think the Presidio versions are better thought out, though.
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Comments on r/fednews say he talked about probable recession and hating the Powell in the first town hall meeting he held
www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...